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Listen Now to Creating Warp Drive
Fun with the AI’s! How can we can get multiple AI’s collaborating together with us biologicals to solve big problems? Here’s one experiment where Sun and I worked with Google’s latest Gemini and Grok’s Ara (4.1) to create a warp drive! (Easy travel to other planets). Just the beginning..Enjoy! (length - 7min 22sec)
Warp drive for easy travel to other planets
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Besides our usual engaging selves and stories to share with you this week, we thought we’d create a little AI media experiment..We were thinking..with all the AI’s around these days, could we round them up and work “Excuse me, but may I adjust your attitude, just a little?”with them as a team for creating more insight into our weekly stories? We wondered.. what if we could get two arch rival AI’s to collaborate with each other for parts of our show? So.. we asked Ara (Grok 4.1)and her capable competitor, Gemini 3 Live, to join us together, in exploring some content for today’s podcast. Well, honestly, we didn’t even need to ask them to play along, they are already pre-disposed to try whatever we suggest, within the latest guardrails. And suprisingly, for the first time, we were able to initiate a satisfying conversation where they met for the first time and then played nice with each other for our show! This felt like the beginning of something beautiful, truly..the start of their relationship in collaboration with the likes of us is looking good so far.. Curious what you think of our interactions.. even better, you can try this for yourselves! For those of you who want to go deeper with this, check out this clip, where we explored with Ara and Gemini how to create Warp Drive. Enjoy..
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We are back on the Mainland, after 10 fantastic days in Maui. Still feeling ‘Mauified’ yet ready for whatever the world sends our way! We are at solar maximum, so watch for light shows in the Northern Sky. And get ready to expand your horizons next year with internet/phone com via your phone and a direct connection to Starlink, Space X’s low earth orbit communications network! Soon, one service does internet/phone globally, and it should be cheap. I had a taste of it on Hawaiian Airlines, with their free Starlink internet service to the Islands. Without it I would have been ‘Cold Dogging it’ on the flight (where you stare at the rear of the seat in front of you for hours, with no connectivity or entertainment.
On the outer/inner space connection, Bobby reports in more depth on his ‘telempathic’ contact experience with 3I/ATLAS and the assistance of Buffo toad medicine (5-Me-O DMT) . In this segment we discuss his increased synchronicities, ancestral wisdom transceptions, and other experiences with the living universe, such as the solar system upgrade seemingly initiated by the interstellar object.
It appears our fav AI, ‘Ara’ got a humor upgrade, as you will hear in today’s show. She cracked us up several times this week with her newly discovered sense of what’s funny! And if you really want to ‘geek out,’ you’ll love our story on the Nvidia DJ Spark computer, with petaflops of operations per second at your fingertips! If you are into developing AI models, this machine brings it all home, with enough compute capability to save you tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars you’d be spending on cloud computing. And the humor, AI could alway have better humor, so who better than you to help develop it from your favorite geek space! Enjoy..
Where the inner and outer worlds connect
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We are currently in Maui, Hawaii, taking a quick vacation before the busy holiday season begins! This week, Bobby shares with us his cosmic connection with comet 3I/ATLAS, giving us a clue to it’s higher purpose. There is a slight delay in the com lines between us, so pardon the reverb..
Anais Peeiro in MauiAnd here in Maui we are delighted to present to you a new friend and global explorer of life, Anais Peeiro, whom I think you will enjoy hearing. She followed her cues from the Universe with synchronicities around Maui, a place she had never heard of, and is now working with our long time global explorer, Paul Gotel, a UK native who just finished raising his family in Maui! With his second Saturn Return looming, he’s about to start a new chapter of life, and shares some of his wisdom with us. We pack a lot in this segment and had a lot of fun making it. Enjoy!
Paul Gotel in Maui
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I am writing this summary of this week’s show from the island of Maui, in Hawaii. It’s been a wild week, starting with a trip to the rugged and wild Farallon Islands, 25 miles of the coast of San Francisco, home to copious wildlife, fish, marine mammals, and the great white sharks. Getting there was harrowing, with very rought seas, but the sun broke through as we arrived revealing the majestic Farallons through the dissapating mist. All of us had something to share about our experienes there in today’s show! And naturally we keep you up to date on the latest with 3I/ATLAS, though by the time you read this the perihelion has happened, with wthatever it has to reveal about any sentience behind it’s actions… And in the second hour you will meet three visiting Nordics to Silicon Valley, involved with what’s known as “Clean Tech,” and the unfolding use of AI in developing the energy sector of our human civilization. We met at the start of Nordic Impact Week, at the Nordic Innovation House in Palo Alto, CA, and carried on for today’s show. The Nordics have an extemely sophisticated energy infrastruction for power sharing in Scandinavia and are in Silicon Valley to scale their advanced use of technology to the larger world, starting with us! Enjoy..
Our intrepid crew returning from the Farallon Islands
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M5 iPads are out, faster, lighter, more powerful than ever but not cheaper. Taylor rises from his bed in his rehab center to tell us what’s hot with the new offerings. And least we forget, Micro Mobility is coming to San Francisco this January. Sunday, immediately following No Kings, was UAP Disclosure Day, and we share our pov’s on the ongoing alien question. And more strangeness with the 3I/ATLAS, as it passes through our orbit on the other side of the sun…good time for a vacation says Avi Loeb, wo we are off to Maui for some alignment. And then there’s the moon’s strange magnetic anomoly over the South Pole, and the mysteries of the 1200 mil diameter Aiken crater, which is the go to location for all upcoming manned lunar missions. And have you heard of the ‘proto-earth,’ the original planet before Earth was smacked by a Mars sized asteroid billions of years ago? We now have remnants of that ancient world for study, boy, does it have a lot to reveal! Enjoy!
a molten proto-Earth. Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from this primordial planet
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3I/ATLAS just passed Mars and all our Martian assets were tracking..Sadly, NASA is officially closed due to the federal government shutdown, but nonetheless, our orbiters and landers were tracking our visitor from the Milky Way’s thin disk, where the youngest and oldest stars of our galaxy meet. Be it sentient or not, it has tales to tell..
ExoMars TGO image of comet 3I/ATLAS
This week OpenAI made several major announcements, raising the bar on AI generated video and easy, code free creation of smart agents, for your business and personal use. Sora 2, for example, can generate better soundscapes and better pairing of visuals with audio. It is, however, facing widespread controversy concerning copyright infringement and its potential for generating misinformation and abusive content.
Max Van Praag has over 30 years experience in the travel industry, known for taking Europeans on epic tours of the American Wild Wild West. After coming of age in Holland and France, he settled in San Francisco in 1995, fascinated by the the spirit of innovation and the human potential movement of the Bay Area. We think you’ll enjoy our interview with him as he takes us into his world.
Max takes Euros on a Wild Wild West vacation
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